flavorless
/ˈfleɪvɚləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Flat; lacking character or definition.
adj
Without flavor.
Example Sentences
- "Salt oysters, on being transferred to fresh water, are "fattened" in the course of two or three days ; if allowed to remain longer they become lean again, and are flavorless."
- "[…] and as for fruit, the high garden wall was lined with pear trees, spread out flat against it, where they managed to produce a cold, flavorless fruit, a good deal akin to cucumbers."
- "1902, Bret Harte, Openings in the Old Trail, IV: A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, […] and the gravestone of its dead owner on the hill was no more flavorless of his personality than was this plain house in which he had lived and died."
- "On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English flavorless From flavor + -less.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfleɪvɚləs/
- British English: /ˈfleɪvələs/